New Suffolk, NY
New Suffolk wildfire risk explained
USFS scores New Suffolk at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 418 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Suffolk at the 34th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
77.8% of New Suffolk's 418 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 22.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where New Suffolk ranks
New Suffolk's 77th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 36th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Suffolk ranks 20,333 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,863 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 302 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
New Suffolk's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 77.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, New Suffolk gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 418 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Suffolk. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Suffolk, see the exposure-zones guide.